by Conservative Pup on March 10, 2010
Well, I had no idea that the government wanted to provide me with satellite TV. Apparently, providing satellite TV to rural areas is included in that bill that Jim Bunning refused to support.
Well, gosh, if I had known that…..
Here I’ve been paying for my own satellite TV because, silly me, I thought it was something I wanted and was responsible for providing for myself. How could I have been so wrong?
Truth is, I wouldn’t take free satellite TV service from the government. I would rather never watch TV again.
The service they would provide likely wouldn’t include FOX News, you think?
Here’s the article I read that let me know about the wonderful benefit that the government wants to provide me. And with all that debt, too, they still want to give us country folk access to Tee-vee.
I’m having some trouble figuring out which “right” this falls under.
No, thank you.
by Conservative Pup on March 9, 2010
From Dennis Prager:
As reported by The Washington Post, “President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.”
CNN adds, “Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.”
The Post continues: “The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) and the White House (are) … both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year — a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of the economy under Obama’s policies and would begin to grow rapidly after 2015.
“Deficits of that magnitude would force the Treasury to continue borrowing at prodigious rates, sending the national debt soaring to 90 percent of the economy by 2020, the CBO said.”
CNN adds that “By 2020 the (CBO) estimates debt held by the public would reach $20.3 trillion, or 90 percent of GDP. That’s up from 53 percent of GDP in 2009.”
I suspect that most Americans, if asked whether these numbers trouble the Democratic leadership and President Obama, would answer in the affirmative.
They would be wrong.
They would be wrong not because the Democratic Party or the president are economically illiterate or bad individuals, but because the Democratic Party and the president are leftists. And most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the left. They may understand liberalism; but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are leftists. And most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal and left. They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that from Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.
Read the entire article here. I highly recommend it.
by Conservative Pup on March 6, 2010
The week has flown by and regretfully I haven’t added anything of value here. Tax season, the start of garden prep, washed out pond dams to patch, cattle to move around, and all the other joys of daily living have kept me from the computer. I’m not complaining. I love being busy, and I love being outdoors, and most of my time the past few days has been spent out in my favorite of God’s churches, “with a Bobolink for a Chorister, and an Orchard, for a Dome.”
But I’m going to try to do better next week. On to the picks of the week.
As Vicki says at The Frugal Cafe Blog Zone, “if we didn’t laugh at this ongoing chaos,…we’d most certainly cry.”
And another humorous (to put it very mildly) one from Hillbuzz. Is Oprah no longer loved?
Kate, at Blatherings Blog, on the “Stepford doctors and nurses“, and Obama’s final (really?) lecture on health care rationing reform.
The Left Coast Rebel has a sober and sobering look at the financial consequences of enacting Obamacare.
I enjoyed reading at Motivation: Truth Adrienne’s capable destroying of the Left’s latest lies about Sarah Palin’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and her visit to the Oscar gifting suite. Those lefties are getting more and more frantic, and it’s amazing to watch.
Here’s a delightful grammar lesson at Roman Around from Professor “Uncle Andy” that most of us don’t need, but apparently, the young Marxists protesting budget cuts at the University of Washington need badly. LOL, Andrew.
And friend James, at The Reaganite Republican, has a great post about the failings of America’s MSM and illustrates how more information can be found in the newspapers in other countries. He also gives a great analysis and summation of those already talking of repealing the healthcare obamanation bill if they resort to reconciliation. Very informative and well-done. Good job, James.
And with that, I’m back out to church, the garden. Pup out.
by Conservative Pup on February 27, 2010
Been a lot going on, what with health care summits, winter Olympics, the economy, and MSM antics. Hope you enjoy these gems as much as I did.
Not new, but never grows old. Maxine Waters and her big “oops” moment, at Watching The Nation.
Uncommon Sense has a fascinating post about our currency and the gold behind it. Or, is there any gold? Don’t miss this, it’s great.
The Tree Of Mamre reliably has great posts, but it was this photo that captured my heart. God bless our troops.
I’m not an accomplished prepper (one who prepares for survival during emergencies), in that I don’t have nearly as much emergency rations stored as I would like, but I’m a dedicated wannabe prepper, and recognize and believe in the necessity of it. The Survival Mom continues to be a great source of information for me, and her post, “Is It Too Late To Prep?” is a must-read if you have just now begun to consider how to become more prepared for an emergency of any sort.
The approaching demise of MSM is illustrated most recently at ABC News, and The Reaganite Republican has the details. I agree with him on Jake Tapper, the only real journalist they have.
Andrew at Roman Around shares his thoughts on the health care summit, or as he calls it, the “monument to arrogance.” Great read.
I’ve enjoyed the Olympics, as always, and hope you have too. As always, there are gracious winners and sore losers. Kris, at Reflections By Kris, writes beautifully about two people, one a grateful and gracious winner, the other a small-minded jerk of a loser. And, throws in some exquisite music to boot.
All kinds of things prevented me from writing my own thoughts on the health care summit, (I call it ‘Life’) but Kate sums up my thoughts perfectly. Blatherings Blog shares her take here.
Just A Conservative Girl explains how Scott Brown is no traitor, and what we should and shouldn’t expect from him. Well-said, and I found myself agreeing totally.
I loved reading this from The Frugal Cafe Blog Zone about the Blabbermouth-in-Chief’s irrelevant and rambling and boring tale of the piss-poor car insurance he had a long time ago. Made me laugh, Vicki, and I thank you for that.
Freedom’s Wings has this great video of the DallasTeaParty inviting Keith Olberman to their one-year anniversary event, after he wonders where are the minorites? Great job by the Dallas Tea Party group for putting this together. Their one-year celebration takes place today, btw. Wonder if “Olberdork” will show.
And on that, Pup out. Have a great weekend everybody!
by Conservative Pup on February 25, 2010
Darn Jeb Bush. I’ve always liked him, and now he goes and does this. Insinuating that Sarah Palin isn’t ‘intellectually curious’ enough to occupy the White House was not only unnecessary, but patently false.
What more do we need in a president than a vibrant love for America, a desire to see America strong economically and on national security, and an understanding of the Constitution and the rights and responsibilities of both politicians and citizens? How refreshing would it be to have as president someone who is grounded in a moral core and has inner courage?
More to the point, Palin is a lot smarter than most give her credit for. She’s a reader of David Horowitz and Thomas Sowell. Enough said.
Come on, Jeb, you are better than this.
H/T The Lonely Conservative, thanks.
by Conservative Pup on February 22, 2010
Three hundred eight million, seven hundred thirty-nine thousand, one hundred forty-four. 308,739,144. That’s the population of the United States as of today, February 23, 2010. Over three hundred million of us, and we’re at the mercy of 51 men and women in the Senate of the United States.
Reconciliation. The nuclear option. We’ve been hearing for weeks now that the Dems might use that to get their health care control bill passed into law. What does that mean exactly?
Here’s the official definition. Mine is “when 51 men and women who have been elected to represent the will of the people living in the districts and states they represent, choose instead to force an overwhelmingly unpopular bill to become law, without regard to the will of the people, because they want to.”
The majority of the American people do not want this bill.
There are 435 House representatives and 100 senators. Fifty-one of 535 elected officials will decide for all of us. That’s 9.5% of Congress. It’s less than 0.00003% of the citizenry.
They were sent to the Senate to “represent” and speak for the people and have decided to simply rule instead.
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